LIDAR.EXE explores an eerie place the place it’s far too darkish to see. You need to use a scanner to look by your surroundings, however you won’t like what you discover.
It’s not possible to see something on this sport’s pitch black world. Not less than, not with out the assistance of your Lidar scanner. This instrument pings the realm round it with a sign, indicating the place partitions, buildings, and creatures have been whenever you did the scan. This can be a useful means of having the ability to ‘see’ what’s round you, because the sign stays as factors of coloured gentle on the article. As you scan a number of occasions, you’ll steadily make the world come into existence round you. It provides you some skill to get round, and the tiniest little bit of consolation in a spot the place you may’t see ANYTHING.
However one thing appears to be down right here with you. Errant alerts present one thing humanoid appears to be skulking about. You’ll ping an space and see a humanoid form that was standing there the second you hit the button. Is it nonetheless there, although? And if not, the place has it wandered off to subsequent? Probably the most your scanner can let you know is that it WAS there. So, whilst you deliver the world into existence round you, you’re nonetheless left at the hours of darkness, in a way. You don’t have any clue the place the creature is – solely that it exists. And that it was near you a second earlier than. At this level, all you are able to do is hold exploring, watching the aftereffects of the creature’s unusual behaviors as you progress steadily deeper into this horrifying place.
LIDAR.EXE does a improbable job of letting you recognize, but in addition not know, concerning the factor that’s stalking you. You will get hints of its presence, however you’ll by no means totally know what’s it’s doing. You simply get an afterimage of the place it was, creating this sense of being disconnected and helpless as you watch it steadily develop nearer.
LIDAR.EXE is accessible now on itch.io.
